Celebrating World Teachers’ Day

World Teachers’ Day
Date: November 27, 2010

We are now pleased to inform you that the deadline for submitting the material has been extended to November 6, 2010. Please send the material by November 6, 2010. We regret to say that no further extension in time will be given after the new deadline.

Considering the important role that teachers play we would request you to please encourage your teachers to participate in this event of World Teachers’ Day with their fellow teachers to learn from each other.

Kindly fill in the attached form and send it along with the material to the following address:

PTAN c/o IED-PDC, 1-5/B-VII, F.B. Area, Karimabad, P.O.Box 13688, Karachi-75950, Pakistan. Tel: 36347611-4 (Ext.: 3203/3205), Fax: 36347616; Email: registration@ptan.org

ASSET

It is a pleasure to inform you that this month ASSET is organizing a 2nd session on “How can History Teaching be Made More Interesting?”. In this session the focus would be on Teaching Strategies and Methodologies.

Topic : “How can History Teaching be Made More Interesting? (2nd Session)”
Date : October 30, 2010
Time : 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Facilitator : Dr Huma Ghaffar, Chairperson ASSET

Kindly confirm your participation latest by October 29, 2010 at 36347611-14 / 36826991-4 Ext. 3203-3204-3205, AKU – lED or register online at info@ptan.org or registration@ptan.org

HEALTH

HEALTH cordially invites you to the below mentioned session:

Title : “Preventing Dengue Fever”
Day/Date : Saturday/October 23rd, 2010
Time : 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Venue : AKU-IED, Karimabad
Facilitators : Dr Shabnam Ahmed, Chairperson HEALTH &
Ms Rakhshinda Meher, Instructor AKU-IED

Kindly confirm your participation latest by October 22nd, 2010 at registration@ptan.org or (36826991-4/ 36347611-4 Ext. 3203 / 3205), as this will facilitate us in organising the workshop effectively.

Celebrating World Teachers’ Day

World Teachers’ Day
Date: November 27, 2010

Dear Members,

World Teacher’s Day is celebrated in many countries of the world on October 5, every year. The day came to be celebrated for the first time in 1994 by UNESCO. The purpose for celebrating this day is to honour and recognize the contributions, devotion and dedication of teachers towards education in general and development of children in particular. “Teachers are essential and indispensible for the effective working of any society and for the building of progressive nations.” UNESCO.

All of us serving at PTAN strongly believe that teachers are central to the development of our future generations and that Teachers matter! To pay tribute to the teacher’s community at large and to our member teachers in particular, we are celebrating the World Teacher’s Day on November 27, 2010. Our purpose in celebrating this day is to provide an opportunity to our teachers to come together on a common platform and share their valuable professional expertise with each other.

To make this event more meaningful and memorable we invite nominations of teachers/Head teachers who may have taken leadership in developing innovative educational material that might have given them a special recognition. The material may include whole school improvement/development plans, publications (books, articles etc.), posters, a unit/lesson plan, curriculum guidelines, and teaching – learning strategies or methods, small projects and or self learning materials. A brief abstract along with a self explanatory introduction to the material, a clear and succinct description of the implementation process along with evidence of the effectiveness and efficacy of the material should be attached. This introductory write – up should not exceed 500 words. For ethical purposes we advise that the original source of all material being presented should be clearly specified. In addition to it a brief bio data not exceeding 50 words should also be included. The deadline for sending all the material is October 22, 2010.

The material/project will be judged against a criterion (stated below) for the final selection. The top ten projects from each association will be selected for display and presentation and will also receive an award. Once the nominations have been received and finalized, the PTAN Office will inform the selected nominees about the details of the presentation process.

Criterion for selection of material:

The material should be innovative, contextually appropriate and relevant and very importantly based on most recent and updated theoretical and practical understanding. It should have been tried and tested in real school / classroom context to prove its efficacy and academic rigour especially in terms of promoting and challenging students’ thinking and understanding. Above all it should be original, adaptable, implementable and manageable.

Kindly fill in the attached form and send it along with the material to the following address:

PTAN c/o IED-PDC, 1-5/B-VII, F.B. Area, Karimabad, P.O.Box 13688, Karachi-75950, Pakistan. Tel: 36347611-4 (Ext.: 3203/3205), Fax: 36347616; Email: registration@ptan.org

SAP (PTAN-Hyderabad)

On behalf of the SAP executive committee, we would like to invite you for the Academic Session to be held on Saturday, October 9, 2010. Details of the session are as follows:

Topic: “Model and Modelling: Journey from Abstract to Concrete”

Objectives: By the end of the session participants will be able to:

o Define model and modeling
o Differentiate between model and modeling
o Explain and differentiate between the different types of models
o Explain the importance of model as teaching and learning tool
o Develop model to experience the modeling process

Time: 9:45am – 1:45pm
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Venue: H. H. Prince Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Amynabad, Hyderabad
Facilitators: Ms. Naheed Anwer, Instructor AKU-IED & Executive Committee Member, SAP
&
Ms. Arshia Saeed, Executive Committee Member, SAP

Since number of seats is limited, therefore confirmations will be necessary and based on first come first basis. Interested members are requested to kindly confirm their participation latest by October 7, 2010 at registration@ptan.org or PTAN Office (6826911-4/6347611-4 Ext. 3203 / 3205) or AKHSS Amynabad, Hyderabad (2611279), as this will facilitate us in organising the workshop effectively.

(Note: In order to provide quality professional development and run the session effectively, members are requested to be seated by 9:30 am)